The Basic Practice of Statistics with Cdrom
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Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
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Combining Genetic Algorithms with Memory Based Reasoning
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
Genetic algorithms with memory-and elitism-based immigrants in dynamic environments
Evolutionary Computation
Novel Associative Memory Retrieving Strategies for Evolutionary Algorithms in Dynamic Environments
ISICA '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Advances in Computation and Intelligence
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In this paper a method to increase the optimization ability of genetic algorithms (GAs) is proposed. To promote population diversity, a fraction of the worst individuals of the current population is replaced by individuals from an older population. To experimentally validate the approach we have used a set of well-known benchmark problems of tunable difficulty for GAs. Standard GA with and without elitism and steady state GA have been augmented with the proposed method. The obtained results show that the algorithms augmented with the proposed method perform better than the not-augmented algorithms or have the same performances. Furthermore, the proposed method depends on two parameters: one of them regulates the size of the fraction of the population replaced and the other one decides the "age" of the population used for the replacement. Experimental results indicate that better performances have been achieved with high values of the former parameter and low values of the latter one.